Letters: Reflecting on primary elections

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Warren could be a game-changer

Perhaps, a Mayor Lovely Warren could be a game-changer. She just doesn't fit the mold. Maybe she can reawaken the reforming ideals of Rochesterians, such as Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.

We have our problems with poverty, crime, racism, education, etc. But we seem unwilling to make the necessary reforms to work on them.

Maybe Rochesterians are just too conservative, too resistant to change for their own good. I, myself, tend to resist change, but this primary election day may have changed me.

Good luck, Lovely Warren.

HARRY S. PEARLE

ROCHESTER

School incumbents' win is deflating

The Sept. 11 headline "School board incumbents triumph" is so sad.

Just last week, outgoing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made fun of Rochester's schools, saying, "Compare us to Rochester: I think we're at 30 percent up to standards. Rochester is at 5 - 5 percent!"

Only getting the children to 5 percent of standards isn't just grounds for getting rid of the incumbents, it's grounds for criminal action against them. Don't the students deserve better? Don't the taxpayers deserve better?

CHRIS FISCHER

ROCHESTER

Confusion likely clouded poll results

The polls and predictions ("How did polls, predictions get mayor's race wrong?" Sept. 12 story) may have been skewed if people in the suburbs, who were called as part of the polling, chose to answer the questions, even if they knew they couldn't vote in Rochester. Both my wife and I received calls from the Siena poll people and very quickly told them we were not city residents. Others, especially some who always wonder why they're never called for a poll, might have chosen to answer just so they could say they were polled. Or, some might have been confused about whether they could vote in the city or not; especially because the only local race we heard much about during the entire primary season was for mayor of Rochester.